I moderated a panel at the recent AWE conference that took place a couple of weeks ago in Long Beach, California. The panel featured Karl Guttag from KGOnTech, Adi Robertson from the Verve, Jeri Ellsworth from Tilt Five, and Ed Tang from Avegan

Paul Travers (Vuzix) on Enhancing Real-World Engagement with Smartglasses

May 22nd, 2024 1h 9m

Paul Travers is the Founder and CEO of Vuzix, a pioneer in wearable computing, augmented reality, waveguide optics, and display engines. Prior to Vuzix, Paul was an engineer at Eastman Kodak, innovating the future of digital cameras. He went on

L.Michelle Salvant (LMichelleMedia) on Transforming Mental Health Through Camera Glasses

May 7th, 2024 1h 13m

L.Michelle Salvant has been wearing smart glasses daily for years, harnessing their potential to enhance personal therapy, healing, and self-discovery. Her engagement with wearable technology began as a Google Glass Explorer, which sparked her

Alex Westner (Xander) on How Caption Glasses are Changing Lives for People with Hearing Loss

Mar 19th, 2024 1h 25m

Alex Westner is the CEO and co-founder of Xander, a company at the forefront of using augmented reality (AR) technology to create innovative solutions for individuals with hearing loss. Xander's product, live captioning AR smart glasses, allows

Zac Duff (JigSpace) on Embodied Cognition and Leveraging AI + Spatial Computing to Transform Communication

Feb 27th, 2024 1h 22m

Zac Duff is the co-founder and CEO of JigSpace, a company focused on making it simple to create and share 3D instructions for anything, or, as their tag line suggests, making the hard to explain hard to forget.If you’ve watched the introduction

Nils Pihl (Auki Labs) on Augmented Reality as Spatially Enhanced Communication

Feb 7th, 2024 1h 41m

Nils Pihl returns as our guest for a second time on the podcast. He is the CEO and founder of Auki Labs, a company dedicated to revolutionizing augmented reality positioning. Auki’s technology uses peer-to-peer communication to establish a dist

Michael Hoffman (IQXR) on Solving the Hard Problems for Enterprises

Jan 16th, 2024 1h 26m

Michael Hoffman, or “Hoff” as most know him, is the co-founder and CEO at IQXR, a company solving the hardest problems facing global-scale, enterprise XR deployments, and doing so with an open source approach.Previously Michael spent nearly a d

Yi Xu (OPPO) on OPPO's Role in the Coming Age of AR Smartglasses

Dec 22nd, 2023 1h 2m

Yi Xu is the director of XR Technology at OPPO, a leading Android smartphone company that's innovating in AR with their Air Glass product line.Prior to OPPO, Yi received a PhD in computer science, specializing in computer vision. He utilized th

Bobak Tavangar (Brilliant Labs) on the Power of Combining Open Source AR Hardware and Multimodal AI

Dec 5th, 2023 1h 5m

Bobak Tavangar is the co-founder and CEO of Brilliant Labs, a company creating an open-source AR glasses hardware platform and pairing that with powerful generative AI models to help you engage with the real world.Bobak studied at George Washin

Kirin Sinha (Illumix) on Creating Digital Infrastructure for Real-World Venues

Nov 21st, 2023 1h 10m

Kirin Sinha is the co-founder and CEO of Illumix, a company building the digital infrastructure for real world venues. You may be familiar with Illumix if you’re a fan of the horror franchise, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and the mobile game, Five

Evan Rose (Rose Digital) on Adding Value and the Challenges of Leading a Fast Growing Company

Nov 7th, 2023 1h 9m

Evan Rose is the founder and president of Rose Digital, a company specializing in using augmented reality to help brands engage and delight their customers. Beyond that, Rose Digital serves as an innovation partner for its clients. On the side,

Ross Finman (Augmodo) on Customer Discovery and Leveraging AI + AR (Part 2)

Oct 17th, 2023 56m 53s

Ross Finman is the CEO of Augmodo, a company utilizing AI and AR to revolutionize grocery store experiences and economics starting with the personal shoppers who fulfill online grocery purchases.Previously Ross spent 4 ½ years at Niantic. There

Ross Finman (Augmodo) on the Approach to Selling 1 Million Headsets (Part 1)

Oct 3rd, 2023 52m 30s

Replay: Maryam Sabour (Niantic) on Active, Outdoor AR Gaming

Sep 19th, 2023 56m 49s

Replay of an interview originally published in April 2023:Maryam Sabour is the General Manager and Head of Business for the AR Headsets group at Niantic, where the goal is to enable everyday adventures and real-life social interaction through l

Replay: Matt Miesnieks, Dennis Crowley, John Gaeta (LivingCities) on Laying the Foundation for the Future of Social Expression (Part 2)

Sep 5th, 2023 1h 13m

Replay of an interview originally published in September 2022:Today’s conversation is a continuation of my discussion with Matt Miesnieks about LivingCities. Joining us for part 2 are co-founders John Gaeta and Dennis Crowley.John won an Oscar

Replay: Matt Miesnieks (LivingCities) on Reflecting Our Reality to Inspire Social Engagement in the Metaverse (Part 1)

Aug 22nd, 2023 43m 7s

Replay of an interview originally published in September 2022:Matt Miesnieks is currently the CEO and co-founder of LivingCities, a company reimagining social engagement in the era of the Metaverse. Many of you know Matt as a serial entrepreneu

Yacine Achiakh (Wisear) on the Promise and Imperative for Neural Interfaces

Aug 8th, 2023 1h 2m

acine Achiakh is the co-founder and CEO of Wisear, a company creating neural interface devices for AR glasses and other wearables. They are packing their technology into normal-looking earphones and working to deliver the capabilities of the mo

David Fattal (Leia) on the Magic of Lightfields

Jul 25th, 2023 1h 9m

David Fattal is the founder and CTO of Leia, a company dedicated to revolutionizing visual experiences through light field display technologies. Lightfield displays are able to create 3D images without glasses. You might remember Leia for its w

Sophia Dominguez (Snap) on the Importance of Product Focus (Part 2)

Jul 11th, 2023 44m 49s

Sophia Dominguez is the Director of AR Platform Partnerships and Ecosystem at Snap, where she’s been the last three years.Previously, she started the widely followed “All Things VR” newsletter and joined Rothenberg Ventures as an Entrepreneur i

Sophia Dominguez (Snap) on How Technology Impacts Human Interaction (Part 1)

Jun 27th, 2023 1h 1m

Jeri Ellsworth (Tilt Five) on Mentorship (Part 2)

Jun 13th, 2023 1h 1m

Jeri Ellsworth is the co-founder and CEO of Tilt Five, a company that has created AR glasses that bring tabletop, multiplayer games to life.Prior to Tilt Five, Jeri was the founder of CastAR, which was also making an augmented reality hardware

Jeri Ellsworth (Tilt Five) on Perseverance and the Pursuit of Passion (Part 1)

May 30th, 2023 1h 4m

Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on the Many Hurdles to µLED and Broad AR Adoption (Part 2)

May 16th, 2023 1h 40m

Karl Guttag, is an industry analyst, speaker and the author of KGOnTech, a technology blog at kguttag.com.Karl has 40 years of experience in Graphics and Image Processors, Digital Signal Processing, and memory architecture, as well as micro dis

Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on Apple Rumors and Four-Corner Market Opportunities (Part 1)

May 3rd, 2023 57m 7s

Maryam Sabour (Niantic) on Active, Outdoor AR Gaming

Apr 11th, 2023 57m 18s

Maryam Sabour is the General Manager and Head of Business for the AR Headsets group at Niantic, where the goal is to enable everyday adventures and real-life social interaction through location-based augmented reality.Maryam studied law and bus